PKI Security Engineer

Eliassen Group; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior PKI Security Engineer for a remote role in the United States. You will manage PKI operations, certificates, and related security projects across a large enterprise, coordinating with cross-team stakeholders.

The position requires expert PKI knowledge, incident response leadership, and DevOps-oriented automation. The role is contract-based, with a comprehensive benefits package for W-2 consultants.

Qualifications

• 4+ years IT experience
• 2+ years PKI experience
• Experience with public CAs (DigiCert, Sectigo)
• Digicert CertCentral familiarity preferred
• ITIL understanding preferred

Responsibilities

• Manage issuance and lifecycle of public CA certificates.
• Register and manage domains and validation processes.
• Troubleshoot high-severity PKI and certificate issues.
• Monitor PKI incident queues and coordinate resolutions across teams.
• Lead changes in PKI and certificate environments and disaster recovery exercises.
• Apply DevOps practices to PKI workflows and automation.

Skills

PKI expertise

Incident response

Scripting (Python)

UNIX experience

Education

High School Diploma

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Digicert CertCentral

Sectigo

AWS

Job description

Description:

Remote

Our client seeks a Senior PKI Security Engineer to provide operational, engineering, and project support for an enterprise PKI environment. The role requires expert-level experience with PKI, certificates, and encryption across large and complex environments. You will manage certificate lifecycle processes, drive analysis and improvement of PKI services, lead incident response activities, and coordinate cross-team initiatives in a virtual, geographically dispersed setting.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $60.00 to $68.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Manage issuance and lifecycle of public CA certificates.
• Register and manage domains and associated validation processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex or high-severity PKI and certificate issues.
• Monitor PKI and certificate incident queues and resolve issues across severities.
• Create, review, approve, and implement changes in the PKI and certificate environment.
• Lead disaster recovery exercises for PKI and certificates.
• Analyze, design, and implement PKI, certificate, and security solutions.
• Identify technical and operational challenges and develop improvements.
• Analyze data trends to drive root cause analysis and service enhancements.
• Perform capacity planning, performance monitoring, and maintenance for high availability.
• Apply DevOps principles to daily workflows and automation efforts.
• Lead or contribute to projects involving PKI, certificates, and security.
• Translate business needs into workable technology solutions.
• Represent Crypto Services on global incident management calls and engage with stakeholders.
• Communicate technical issues to technical and non-technical audiences.

Experience Requirements:

• At least 4 years of Information Technology experience.
• At least 2 years of experience with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
• Experience with public Certificate Authorities, including Digicert and Sectigo.
• Knowledge of or hands-on experience with Digicert CertCentral preferred.
• Understanding of ITIL principles preferred.
• Experience leading technical teams or projects preferred.
• AWS certification preferred.
• Experience with Python or other scripting languages preferred.
• 3+ years of PKI experience preferred.
• Enterprise-scale PKI operations and implementation experience preferred.
• 2+ years of UNIX experience preferred.
• Ability to work ET zone hours. Remote or onsite hybrid at a people center if needed.
• Contract only. One-hour Zoom video interview.

Education Requirements:

• High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent certification required.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering preferred.